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Anon. [Pamphlet] Facts and Opinions in Favour of legalising Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Eight pages, disbound, faint foxing, mainly good condition. Note: Marriage Law Reform Association was established in 1851 to try to change public and parliamentary opinion. No copy listed on COPAC or WorldCat. |
Law, Social history, Women | £125.00 |
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Francis Newbery & Sons, the medical arm of the London publishers founded at St Paul’s Churchyard by John Newbery [Francis Close (1797-1882), Dean of Carlisle] The history of the business is convoluted. See the entries in the Oxford DNB of the founder of the firm John Newbery (c.1713-1767) of St Paul’s Churchyard, his son Francis Newbery (1743-1818), and Elizabeth Newbery, née Bryant (c.1746-1821, widow of Francis Newbery (c.1740-1780), cousin of the... |
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Gene Pitney [Gene Francis Alan Pitney] (1940-2006), 'The Rockville Rocket', American singer-songwriter, international pop star big in the 60s See his obituary in the Guardian, 5 April 2006. On irregularly-shaped trapezoid of ruled paper, roughly 8 cm wide at top, with one vertical side also 8cm, and the other 4cm, giving it a guillotine shape. Lightly aged and ruckled. Blank on the reverse. Reads: ‘Best / always / Gene Pitney’. |
Music and Theatre | £0.00 |
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Captain Charles Edgar Gibson, of the 49th Regiment of Foot [Crimean War; Sebastopol] Letter One: 12mo, 4 pp. Bifolium. 75 lines of text. Clear and complete. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Expresses regret at 'Morten Edens melancholy death, so young & so clever as he was'. 'There is great talk of Peace. We hardly know if to believe it - few will be sorry should the news prove... |
History, Military and Naval History | £350.00 | |
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Captain George John Whyte-Melville (DNB), novelist and poet ALS, 1p, 16mo, to "My dear Harry" "No Bye day!" He saw Charles Payne the day before. "It is freezing here with Arctic severity & I tremble for Friday and Saturday". Signed "J W Melville". Mounted on a piece of card. |
Literature | £35.00 | |
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Captain John Laurence Pritchard [The Royal Aeronautical Society] Twenty-one Typed Letters Signed to the Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. Novelist and writer on aeronautics (1885-1968). All items one page, quarto. As a whole good, though grubby, but some items with pin holes, closed tears, etc. Most bearing the R.S.A. stamp and some docketed. Three items with enclosures. The items are dry communications relating to the arranging... |
Science, Medicine and Technology | £100.00 | |
| Grace Le Baron Upham, (1845-1916) children's writer [see Note] | £0.00 | ||
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Captain Sir Cecil Hamilton Armitage [the Ashanti Campaign; the Gambia] British soldier and colonial official (1869-1933), Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Gambia Colony and Protectorate, 1920-7. All three items very good. Both letters one page, quarto; both bearing the R.S.A. stamp, and one docketed. All three items signed 'C. A. Armitage'. LETTER ONE: Thanks... |
Military and Naval History, Travel and Topography | £125.00 | |
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Captain Sir Harold George Campbell Two Typed Letters Signed to W. Perry, Secretary, Royal Society of Arts. British soldier and courtier (1888-1969), Equerry and Groom of the Robes to King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. Both letters written in capacity as Private Secretary to the Duke of York. Both very good, though grubby, docketed and bearing the Society's stamp. LETTER ONE (one page, 12mo): '... |
History, Royalty | £32.00 | |
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Captain Taprell Dorling (" Taffrail ") Autograph Letter Signed "Taprell Dorling" to [Royal Society of Arts. Author. One page, 8vo, fold mark, good condition. "in your letter of November 2nd last, you were kind enough to say that you would take the necessary steps for my election to the Royal Society of Arts if I decided to reconsider my original inability to accept your Council's invitation. / I... |
Literature, Military and Naval History | £75.00 |